Microsoft's ad for its Copilot AI chatbot aired at the Super Bowl LVIII yesterday evening included a questionable message for aspiring game developers.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Oof I think that's a not idea to do because it screams imo less passion in development but hey that's my view.
Microsoft encouraging programmers losing their jobs to the soulless machine.
They're all going to use it in the coming years. To what extent where it eliminates jobs is the question.
I'm not scared of AI or robots. How they are implemented in our society to make things more efficient or better is what's the big deal. And who controls them behind the scenes to influence others. Or built to cause chaos, ruin and death. Because we know there are those that will build AI or robots to do that as well.
But I want to see the positive things that come from using AI to build limitless worlds and stories when it comes to games and VR. Anyone that watches Star Trek can see the Holodeck and the AI that controls it can be for good as an educational tool and entertainment. Or, it can also cause harm or even kill you. But it's how it's used that determines what happens.
But even in Star Trek, they still love the live performance of music, written word, theater plays and art done by human beings.
its more a ploy that programmers lose their jobs
AI will kill creativity. No thanks